List of some of my publications

Google Scholar Citation Index of Prof G C Nandi

Research publications in the area of Generative AI and computer/robot vision:

1. Language-Conditioned Semantic Search-Based Policy for Robotic Manipulation Tasks, Jannik Sheikh, Andrew Melnik, Gora Chand Nandi,Robert Haschke, presented and published both  as oral and poster paper in the Foundational Models for Decision Making workshop,  37th NeurIPS-2023, New Orleans, USA Dec 10-16, 2023. paper_78.pdf ( sslneurips23.github.io ).

2.  Won award -UniTeam: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08611), NeurIPS-2023, Dec.10-16, New Orleans, USA. 

3. Won award -UniTeam: CVPR-2024 Seattle, USA, Home Robot Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation global challenge  organized during CVPR June 17-21 st, 2024   by  "Embodied  AI" , beating our own previous record with NeurIPS -2023, in terms  of improving  efficiency by more than 12%.

4. Cognitive Planning for Object Goal Navigation using Generative AI Models (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00318) accepted  in NeurIPS-2024 workshop        OWA to be held from December 9-15, 2024, Vancouver, Canada.

5. SplatR: Experience Goal Visual Rearrangement with 3D Gaussian Splatting and Dense Feature Matching, (https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14322) Arjun P      S, Andrew Melnik, Gora Chand Nandi (https://splat-r.github.io/). 

6.  Robotic Grasp Detection By Learning Representation in a Vector Quantized Manifold ,  with my students Priya Shukla, Mridul Mahajan, Tryambak Bhattacharjee, Arya Krishnan, CVPR 2020  workshop WiCV June 16-18, 2020, Seattle, USA. Full paper here( https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08477 ).

7.   Emotion Recognition with reduced parameters and computation, with my student Shruti Jaiswal, workshop WiCV  CVPR- 2019, June 16-19, 2019, Long Beach, CA, USA. Full paper here( https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03855 ).

Research and publications during 2023-2024

1. Development of a robust cascaded architecture for intelligent robot grasping using limited labelled data. Shukla, P., Kushwaha, V. & Nandi, G.C.Machine Vision and Applications   (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-023-01459-2, Journal of Machine Vision and Applications. 

2. Synthesis of Human-Inspired Intelligent Fonts Using Conditional-DCGAN. In: Tistarelli, M., Dubey, S.R., Singh, S.K., Jiang, X. (eds) Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 586. Kalingeri, R., Kushwaha, V., Kala, R., Nandi, G.C. (2023).Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7867-8_55

3. Context-aware 6D pose estimation of known objects using RGB-D data. Multimedia Tools Appl (2023). Kumar, A., Shukla, P., Kushwaha, V.  Nandi, G C  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17524-x, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications.

4. “MMAG: Mutually Motivated Attention Gates for Simultaneous Extraction of Contextual and Spatial Information from a Monocular Image”,Aditya Singh, Saloni Mohan, Vandana Kushwaha, G C Nandi, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3627631.3627634?download=true

5.  “Vision Transformer-enabled Semantic Segmentation for Enhanced Robotic Grasping in 3D Space”, Shivam Shukla, Aditya Singh, Vandana Kushwaha, G C Nandi https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10440774.

6. “Robotic Grasp Prediction for Selective Objects in a Cluttered Environment using Object Centric Masking”, Ananya Agarwal, Vandana Kushwaha, Aditya Singh, G.C.Nandi, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10434867.

7. Voice Assisted Pick and Place using a Mobile Manipulator for Warehouse Scenarios, Ananya Agarwal, Vandana Kushwaha, Rahul Kala, and  G.C. Nandi, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10434638

8. Gupta, S., Yadav, G.K. & Nandi, G.C. Development of human motion prediction strategy using inception residual block. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 21177–21191 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14440-y

9.Language-Conditioned Semantic Search-Based Policy for Robotic Manipulation Tasks, Jannik Sheikh, Andrew Melnik, Gora Chand Nandi,Robert Haschke, presented and published both  as oral and poster paper in the Foundational Models for Decision Making workshop,  37th NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, USA Dec 10-16, 2023. paper_78.pdf (sslneurips23.github.io)

11. UniTeam: Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation Challenge, NeurIPS-2023, Dec.10-16, New Orleans, USA. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.086

12. Designing an adaptive cost function for dynamic human pose predictions. Yadav, G.K., Puig, D. & Nandi, G.C. Multimedia Tools Applications (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17736-1

13. Exploring Unseen Environments with Robots using Large Language and Vision Models through a Procedurally Generated 3D Scene Representation, Arjun P S, Andrew Melnik, Gora Chand Nandi, 30th March, 2024, ( https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.00318 ).

Research and Publications during 2022-2023

1. Development of a robust cascaded architecture for intelligent robot grasping using limited labelled data , Machine Vision and Applications (2023) 34:99 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-023-01459-2,  Priya Shukla · Vandana Kushwaha · G. C. Nandi

2. Generative model based robotic grasp pose prediction with limited dataset, Shukla, P., Pramanik, N., Mehta, Nandi,G. C. , Appl Intell 52, 9952–9966 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-03011-z ( Impact factor 5)

3. Generating Quality Grasp Rectangle using Pix2Pix GAN for Intelligent Robot Grasping, Kushwaha, V., Shukla, P. & Nandi, G.C.  Machine Vision and Applications 34, 15 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-022-01362-2  ( Impact Factor 2.9)

4, Synthesis of Human Inspired Intelligent Fonts using Conditional-DCGAN , Ranjith Kalingeri ,  Vandana Kushwaha, G C Nandi , Spinger conference proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI), 12-13 August 2022 • IIIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, INDIA, Hybrid Mode.

5. Estimating Depth Map of an RGB image using Encoders and Decoders , A. Gupta, V. Kushwaha, R. Kala and G. C. Nandi, "Estimating Depth Map of an RGB image using Encoders and Decoders," 2022 IEEE 9th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), Prayagraj, India, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/UPCON56432.2022.9986392.

6. Meme Detection For Sentiment Analysis and Human-Robot Interactions Using Multiple  Modes ,V. Sharma, V. Kushwaha, S. Jaiswal and G. C. Nandi, "Meme Detection For Sentiment Analysis and Human Robot Interactions Using Multiple Modes," 2022 IEEE 9th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), Prayagraj, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/UPCON56432.2022.9986453.

7. Simulation Aided Anticipatory Congestion Avoidance for Warehouses, H. Bhati, G. Suri, R. Kala and G. C. Nandi, "Simulation Aided Anticipatory Congestion Avoidance for Warehouses," 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Mexico City, Mexico, 2022, pp. 2062-2067, doi: 10.1109/CASE49997.2022.9926624.   

8. Group-Aware Human Trajectory Prediction, I. Sethi et al., "Group-Aware Human Trajectory Prediction," 2022 IEEE 6th Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), Gwalior, India, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/CICT56698.2022.9997980. 

Research and Publication during 2021-2022

1. "Development of Behavior based Robot manipulation using Actor-Critic architecture,"P. Shukla, M. Pegu and G. C. Nandi, 2021 8th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), 2021, pp. 469-474, doi: 10.1109/SPIN52536.2021.9566102.

2.  Designing effective power law-based loss function for faster and better bounding box regression, Aswal, D., Shukla, P. & Nandi, G.C. Machine Vision and Applications 32, 87 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-021-01206-5

3. Generative model based robotic grasp pose prediction with limited dataset, Shukla, P., Pramanik, N., Mehta, D. G C Nandi. Appl Intell (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-03011-z

4. "Influence of human mindset and societal structure in the spread of technology for Service Robots," A. Singh, P. Pandey and G. C. Nandi, 2021 IEEE 8th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/UPCON52273.2021.9667652.

5. " Robotic Grasp Manipulation Using Evolutionary Computing and Deep Reinforcement Learning'', with my students Priya Shukla and  Hitesh Kumar , International Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, Intelligent Service   Robotics (SCI) volume 14, pages61–77 (date of publication -15th January, 2021).

6. ''Effectiveness of multi-gated sequence model for the learning of kinematics and dynamics of an industrial robot'', with my students Aditya Singh and Padmakar Pandey, International Journal of Industrial Robot,(SCI), ISSN: 0143-991x 2020.

7. ''Development of a robust cascaded architecture for intelligent robot grasping using limited labelled data'', Priya Shukla, Vandana Kushwa, G C Nandi (Under Review)

8. ''Optimized, Robust, Real-Time Emotion Prediction for Human-Robot Interaction using Deep Learning” Jaiswal, S., Nandi, G.C. Multimedia Tools Appl 82, 5495–5519 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12794-3 

9. “Emotional State of Mind prediction through Face, Context and Attention”  Shruti Jaiswal and G C Nandi,  SPIE Journal (under review). 

10. On Solving Inverse Kinematics of Redundant Robots Using Invertible Neural Networks with Ex-Post Density Estimation, in the workshop of 36th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 22-March,1,2022 , Mridul Mahajan and Gora Chand Nandi 

11. Attention-Guided Context-aware Emotional State Recognition, Shruti Jaiswal, Sandeep Misra, G.C. Nandi, November 2020, DOI:10.1109/UPCON50219.2020.9376440, Conference: 2020 IEEE 7th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON)

 Research and Publication during 2020-2021

1.  Effectiveness of multi-gated sequence model for the learning of kinematics and dynamics of an industrial robot, with my students Aditya Singh and Padmakar Pandey, International Journal of Industrial Robot, ( Accepted for     publication)

2. Robotic Grasp Manipulation Using Evolutionary Computing and Deep Reinforcement Learning, with my students Priya Shukla and  Hitesh Kumar , International Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, Intelligent Service   Robotics .

3. Trajectory Learning for Stable Bipedal Walking Robots using Sequential Networks, with my students Gaurav  Yadav, and Shruti Jaiswal, in the proceedings of the 7th IEEE UPCON 2020, November, 27-29, 2020.

4. Context-aware Emotional State Recognition in real-time, with my students Shruti Jaiswal, in the proceedings of the 7th IEEE UPCON 2020, November, 27-29,  2020.

5. Image based Emotional State Prediction from Multiparty Audio Conversation, with my students Shruti Jaiswal and  Ayush Jain in the proceedings of IEEE PUNECON 2020, December 16-18, 2020, Pune, received best paper award.

6. Generic Walking Trajectory Generation of Biped using Sinusoidal Function and Cubic Spline, with my students Gaurav Yadav and Shruti Jaiswal, in the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN) 2020,  February, 27-28, 2020.

7. Development of Adaptive Sampling Based strategy for Human Activity Predictions Using Sequential Networks ,in the Conference proceedings of IEEE ,  Information and Communication Technology (CICT), 3-5 December,  2020. Received Best Paper Award in the track of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

8. Robotic Grasp Detection By Learning Representation in a Vector Quantized Manifold, with my students, M. Mahajan, T. Bhattacharjee, A. Krishnan, and P. Shukla in the proceeding, IEEE, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), July 1-5, 2020. 

9. Regression based robotic grasp detection using Deep learning and Autoencoders, with my students Pragya Goyal, and Priya Shukla in the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), 3-5 December, 2020.

10. Study of Prevention of Mode Collapse in Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), with my students Bhagyashree,  and Vandana Kushwaha, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), December 3-5,  2020.

Research and Publications during 2019-2020

1. Robust real-time emotion detection system using CNN architecture, with my student Shruti Jaiswal, Neural Computing and Applications (SCI Journal), Spinger 1-10, October 24,  2019.

2. Generic Walking Trajectory Generation of Biped using Sinusoidal Function and Cubic Spline with my students Gaurav Yadav and Shruti Jaiswal,  7 th IEEE International conference on Signal Processing and Integrated, Networs (SPIN 2020) .             

3. Light Weight Emotion Classifier for Easing Human- Robot Social Communication, with my student Shruti Jaiswal,  Cognitive Systems Research, Elsevier (SCI Journal) (under review).

4. Deep Learning based parameter reduced Real Time Emotion Predictor for Human Robot Interaction,with my student Shruti Jaiswal,  International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer,(SCI Journal)(under review)

5. Cartesian To Joint Space Mapping Using Q-Learning, with my students  Tanuj Pal Singh and  Priya Shukla 2019 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), ALIGARH, India, 2019,    (Received Best Paper award in the Robotics Track).

6. Robotized Grasp: Grasp manipulation using Evolutionary Computing, with my student Priya Shukla,  2019 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), ALIGARH, India, 2019.

7. Fusing Multimodal Human-Robot Communication using Deep Learning, with my students  Priya Shukla, Bhanu Bhandari, Aditya Goel, Ravi Charan, Niharika Gali, Agam Dwivedi, Nikhil Mundra, Ruchin Agrawal 2019 International      Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON), ALIGARH, India, 2019, pp. 1-6.

8. Robotic Grasp Detection By Learning Representation in a Vector Quantized Manifold ,  with my students Priya Shukla, Mridul Mahajan, Tryambak Bhattacharjee, Arya Krishnan, WiCV IEEE CVPR 2020 (accepted as poster presentation), June 16-18, 2020, Seattle, USA.

9. Robotic Grasp Detection By Learning Representation in a Vector Quantized Manifold , with my students  Mridul Mahajan, Tryambak Bhattacharjee, Arya Krishnan and Priya Shukla SPCOM 2020, IISc, Bangalore(accepted) 

Research and Publications during 2018-2019

1. Emotion Recognition with reduced parameters and computation, with my student Shruti Jaiswal, WiCV IEEE CVPR- 2019, June 16-19, 2019, Long Beach, CA, USA.( Poster)

2. Deep Learning-based Real-Time Object Detection and Recognition on a Low-Compute Robot, Sayantan Chatterjee, Faheem H.Zunjani, Souvik Sen and Gora C. Nandi.

3. Deep Learning based command pointing direction estimation using a single RGB Camera Number , Pratyush Mishra, Shruti Jaiswal and G.C. Nandi, 5th IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer  Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/UPCON.2018.8596762.

4. Intent-based Object Grasping by a Robot using Deep Learning , Faheem Hassan Zunjani, Souvik Sen, Himanshu Shekhar, Aditya Powale, Debadutta Godnaik, G. C. Nandi,DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12758.50242.

5. Fusing Multimodal Human-Robot Communication using Deep Learning, Priya Shukla, Niharika Gali, Ravi Charan, Bhanu Bhandari, Nikhil Mundra, Agam Dwivedi, Ruchin Agrawal and G. C. Nandi, in the proceedings of 

 IEEE UPCON, November 8-10, 2019,  978-1-7281-3455-0/19/$31.00 ©2019 IEEE

6. Automated Industrial Quality Control of Pipe Stacks using Computer Vision, with Sayantan Chatterjee and Bidyut B Chowdhuri, in the Proceedings of CVIP-2019, 27-29 Sept., 2019, Jaipur. 

7. Robotized Grasp: Grasp manipulation using Evolutionary Computing, Priya Shukla and G. C. Nandi, in the proceedings of  IEEE UPCON, November 8-10, 2019,  978-1-7281-3455-0/19/$31.00 ©2019 IEEE

8. Cartesian To Joint Space Mapping Using Q-Learning, Tanuj Pal Singh, Priya Shukla and G. C. Nandi,  in the proceedings of  IEEE UPCON, November 8-10, 2019,  978-1-7281-3455-0/19/$31.00 ©2019 IEEE

(received best paper award in the Computer Vision and Machine Learning track).

Research Publications during 2017-2018

1. Deep Learning Based Intelligent Robot Grasping Strategy with my students  Prateek Agarwal, Preshit Gupta, Aryaan Singh, 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), pp.1064-1069, June 12-15, 2018. Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

2.  “Deep Learning based Command Pointing Direction Estimation using a Single RGB Camera”,  with Shruti Jaiswal, Pratyush Mishra, in the proceedings of 5th IEEE, UPCON 2018. 2-4 Nov 2018, MMMTU, Gorakhpur, 978-1-5386-5002-8/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE .

 3. "Feature Extraction and Selection for Emotion Recognition from Electrodermal Activity" in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing published on 26th February, 2019 10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2901673, with Shukla Jainendra,  Barreda-Ángeles Miguel and Oliver Joan (SCI).

 4.  “Multi-objective optimized bipedal locomotion”, Int. Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernatics, (2017). DOI :10.1007/s13042-017-0660-1, with Raj M.,Semwal V.B (SCI).

5.  Hybrid Model for Passive Locomotion Control of a Biped Humanoid, with Manish Raj, Vijay Bhaskar Semwal International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, May 2017.(SCI)

 6.   "A rough set based reasoning approach for criminal identification, Article in International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics",  June 2017,DOI:10.1007/s13042-017-0699-z, with Avinash Kumar Singh, Neha Baranwal, (SCI)

  7. "Design of Vector Field for Different Subphases of Gait and Regeneration of Gait Pattern" IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Jan. 2018 ) (SCI)

 8.  P Pandey, Krishan Kumar, G C Nandi,"Imitation of Human Motion on a Humanoid Robot using Inverse Kinematics and Path Optimization ", In the Conference Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems (IEEE ICICCS 2018), 14-15 June, 2018, Madurai.India, pp1870-1875.

  9.    Shruti Jaiswal, Ashish Mehta and G.C Nandi,"Investigation on the Effect of L1 an L2 Regularization on Image Features Extracted using Restricted Boltzmann Machine", In the proceedings of IEEE-ICCS 2018, June 14- June 15, 2018 , Madurai. India, pp-1552-1557.

 10.  Padmakar Pandey, Akash Chakroborty, G.C. Nandi, “Efficient Neural Network Based Principal Component Analysis Algorithm”, published in the proceedings of IEEE CICT 2018, IIIT-Jabalpur, October 26-28, 2018, 978-1-5386-8215-9/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE.

11.   Priya Shukla, G.C.Nandi, “ Reinforcement Learning for Robots with special reference to the Inverse kinematics solutions”, published in the proceedings of  IEEE CICT 2018, IIIT-Jabalpur, October 26-28, 2018, 978-1-5386-8215-9/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE.

12.  Aditya Singh,G. C. Nandi, “ Machine Learning based Joint Torque calculations of Industrial Robots”, published in the proceedings of IEEE CICT 2018, IIIT-Jabalpur, October 26-28, 2018,978-1-5386-8215-9/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE.

Research Publications during 2016-2017

1.    Soumyarka Mondal, Member, IEEE, and Gora Chand Nandi, Senior Member, IEEE ," Hybrid Model for Passive Locomotion Control of a Bipedal Robot",  IEEE-ICRA 2017, May 29 - June 03, 2017, Singapore ( paper ID-WePM14).

2.     Soumyarka Mondal, Member, IEEE, and Gora Chand Nandi, Senior Member, IEEE  "Personal Robot: Towards developing a complete Humanoid Robot Assistant using the Internet of Things",  IEEE Smart World Congress -2017, August 4-8, Bay Area, San Francisco, USA.

3.    Manish Raj, Vijay Bhaskar Semwal, G.C. Nandi "Bidirectional Association of Joint Angle Trajectories for Exoskeletons to assist the human motion" in the workshop of Mechanics of Human Locomotion and the Development of Wearable Robotic Systems, During ICRA 2017" IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA)-2017, May 29 - June 03, Singapore  ( Tier-1 Conference).

4.    Manish Raj, Vijay Bhaskar Semwal, G.C. Nandi, Bidirectional Association of Joint Angle Trajectories for Humanoid Locomotion:The Restricted Boltzmann Machine Approach, Neural Computing and Application DOI: 10.1007/s00521-016- 2744-3 (SCI)

5.    Manish Raj, G.C. Nandi, Design of Multi objective function for Biped Locomotion based on Energy and Stability , Journal of Intelligent Systems, De Gruyter. 

Research Publications during 2015-2016

1. Avinash Kumar Singh, G C Nandi, “NAO Humanoid Robot: Analysis of Calibration Techniques for Robot Sketch Drawing”, published in Elsevier, International Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems", Vol. 79, pp. 108-121. SCI-Impact Factor: 1.256, 2015.

2. Kumud Tripathi, Neha Baranwal and G.C. Nandi. “Continuous Indian Sign Language Gesture Recognition and Sentence Formation” published in 11th International Conference of Image and Signal Processing (ICISP 2015) (Elsevier Procedia), August 2015.

3. KumudTripathi, Neha Baranwal and G.C. Nandi. “Continuous Dynamic Indian Sign Language Gesture” published in 4th IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing,  Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2015), August 2015, SCMS, Aluva, Kochi, pp. 2211-2216.

4. Vijay BhaskarSemwal. ChandanKumar ,Piyush Mishra and Gora Chand Nandi."Design of vector field for different sub phases of gait and regeneration of gait pattern”- IEEE  Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (2016-07-25)

5. M. Raj, Vijay Bhaskar and G. C. Nandi, “ Bidirectional association of Joint Angle trajectories for Humanoid locomotion: The Restricted Boltzmann Machine approach, Neural Computing and application DOI : 10.1007/s00521-016-2744-3SCI

6. Neha Baranwal and G.C.Nandi. "A Mathematical Framework for possibility Theory based Hidden Markov Model” Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (Inderscience) (SCI) .

7. Neha Baranwal and G.C.Nandi. "Real Time Gesture based Communication using  Possibility Theory based Hidden Markov Model” International journal of computational Intelligence (Wiley) (SCI).

8. Avinash singh, Neha Baranwal and G.C.Nandi  "Development of a self-reliant humanoid robot for sketch drawing ”Journal of multimedia tools and applications.(SCI)

9. Semwal, Vijay Bhaskar, and Gora Chand Nandi. "Modelling Bipedal Locomotion Trajectories Using Hybrid Automata” IEEE Tencon-2016, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 22-25  November, 2016.

10.      Neha Baranwal and G.C.Nandi. "An Efficient Gesture based Humanoid Learning using Wavelet Descriptor and MFCC Techniques”. Published in International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer) (SCI) (1.15 impact factor) (pp. 1-10, 17-April-2016). 

Research Publications during 2014-2015

1.    Vijay Bhaskar Semwal, Pavan Chakraborty, G.C. Nandi, Less computationally intensive fuzzy logic (type-1)-based  controller for Humanoid Push Recovery, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 63, Part 1, January 2015, Pages 122-135, ISSN 0921-8890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2014.09.001. (SCI Journal)

2. Vijay Bhaskar Semwal, Manish Raj, G.C. Nandi, Biometric gait identification based on a multilayer perceptron, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 65, March 2015, Pages 65-75, ISSN 0921-8890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2014.11.010.. (SCI Journals)

3. Neha Baranwal, Neha Singh and G.C. Nandi. “Implementation of MFCC based Hand Gesture Recognition on HOAP-2 using WEBOTs Platform”  in the proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI 2014), September 2014 (Received Best paper award).

4. Neha Singh, Neha Baranwal and G.C. Nandi. “Implementation and Evaluation of DWT and MFCC based Indian Sign Language (ISL) gesture recognition” in the conference Proceedings of  9th IEEE International conference on Industrial and Information systems (ICIIS 2014), 15-17 Dec. 2014.

5. Semwal, V.B,  Nandi, G.C., "Toward Developing a Computational Model for Bipedal Push Recovery–A Brief," Sensors Journal, IEEE , vol.15, no.4, April 2015  doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2389525. (SCI Journal)

7. S C Pandey and G C Nandi, TDS based framework for mining the induction rules, Journal of computational sciences, Vol. 5, issue 2, pp. 184-195, Elsevier, 2014. (Impact Factor:1.567) (SCI Journal)

8. S C Pandey, G C Nandi, Convergence of knowledge, nature and computations: a review, soft computing , springer, 2014.  DOI 10.1007/s00500-014-1510-7. (SCI Journal) (Impact Factor: 1.304).

Research publications during 2013-2014

1. A. Nandy, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi  “Person Tracking and Segmentation for Human Gait Biometric System” – In International Journal of Biometrics, Inderscience Publisher, vol 6, 3, pp 205-230, 2014.

2. A. Nandy,  R. Chakraborty, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi   “A novel approach to Human Gait Recognition using possible speed invariant features” – In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Taylor and Francis Publisher, Volume 7, Issue 6, 2014, pp 1174-1193. 

3. S. Bhowmick, A. Nandy, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi.: “A Speed Invariant Human Identification System using Gait Biometrics”In International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, (IJCVR), InderScience Publishers, vol.4, Issue 1, pp.3-22, 2014.  

4. A. Nandy, S. Bhowmick, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi.: “Gait Biometrics: An Approach to Speed Invariant Human Gait Analysis for Person Identification”- Proceedings of 2nd  International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving SocPros-2012 Jaipur in the proceeding of AISC Series of Springer, Vol. 236, pp.729-737, 2014. 

5. A. Nandy, A. Pathak. P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi: “Gait Identification using Component based Gait Energy Image Analysis”-Proceedings of  Int. Conf. on Signal propagation and Computer Technology (ICSPCT), Govt Engineering College, Ajmer, India – 12-13 July, 2014.  

6. Neha Baranwal, Neha Singh and G.C.Nandi, “Indian Sign Language Gesture Recognition Using Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform",  in the proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Signal Propagation and Computer Technology (ICSPCT 2014) Govt Engineering College, Ajmer, India–12-13 July,2014.

7.  Neha Baranwal, Neha Singh and G.C.Nandi, "Implementation of MFCC based Hand Gesture Recognition on HOAP-2 using WEBOTs Platform", Proceedings of  3rd IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2014).

8. Avinash Kumar singh, Piyush Joshi and G.C.Nandi, "Face Recognition with Liveness Detection using Eye and Mouth Movement", Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Signal Propagation and Computer Technology (ICSPCT 2014) Govt Engineering College, Ajmer, India–12-13July,2014.

9. Avinash Kumar singh, Arun Tyagi and G.C.Nandi, "Expression Invariant Fragmented Face Recognition", Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Signal Propagation and Computer Technology (ICSPCT 2014) Govt Engineering College, Ajmer, India – 12-13 July, 2014.

10. Avinash Kumar singh and G.C.Nandi, "A Real Time Parallel Component based Face Recognition for Human Robot Interaction", Proceedings of  7th IEEE International Conference on Contemporary computing (IC3 2014).

11. V.B. Semwal, A. Bhushan and G.C. Nandi- “Study of Humanoid Push Recovery Based on Experiments”, proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics & Embedded System- CARE13, 2013- IIITDM Jabalpur.

12. V.B. Semwal, S.A.Katiyar, P.Chakarvarty and G.C. Nandi- “Biped Model Based on Human Gait Pattern Parameters for Sagittal Plane Movement”, Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics & Embedded System- CARE13,2013- IIITDM Jabalpur.

13.   Vijay K. Chaurasiya · Neeraj Jain · G.C. Nandi,  A novel distance estimation approach for 3D localization in wireless sensor network using multi dimensional scaling, International Journal of Information Fusion 01/2014; 15(1):5 -18.DOI:10.1016/j.inffus.2013.06.003 · 3.68 Impact Factor.

Research Publications during 2010-2013

1.    Seema Mishra, G. C. Nandi,  “Hierarchy of Community and Link Analysis”, Proceedings of the 2nd  International conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and  Multimedia, Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 276, 2013, pp 246-254.

2.    Avinash Kumar Singh, Piyush Joshi, G C Nandi, “Development of a Fuzzy Expert System based Liveliness Detection Scheme for Biometric  Authentication” published in the proceedings of  7th International  Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP-2013),  Bangalore –India. Digital Library, pp. 96-103 October 2013.

3.      Seema Mishra, G C Nandi, “Link Mining Using Strength of Frequent Pattern of Interaction” in the proceedings of  International Conference on Advanced Computing,  Networking, and Informatics(ICACNI 2013), Springer AISC Central Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

4.      A. Nandy, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi.: “Speed Invariant, Human Gait Based Recognition System for Video Surveillance Security” – 2nd  International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM- 2013), IIIT-Allahabad in the proceeding of Springer CCIS Vol.  276, pp. 325-335, March 9 -11, 2013.

5.      S. Bhowmick, A. Nandy, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi, “Gait Biometrics: A Vision Based Approach for Cloths Invariant Walking Pattern  Classification” – In the proceedings of International Conference on Signal Processing, Computing and Control (ICSPC-2013), IEEE- Xplore, Jaypee   University of Information Technology,  September 26-28, 2013.   

6.      A. Nandy, S. Bhowmick, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi.: “Gait Biometrics: An Approach to Speed Invariant Human Gait Analysis for Person Identification”- In the proceedings of  2nd  International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving SocPros-2012 Jaipur in the proceeding of AISC Series of  Springer. 

7.      A. Nandy, S. Bhowmick, P. Chakraborty, G. C. Nandi, “A Sensor based technique for Speed Invariant Human Gait Classification” – International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI-2013), in the proceeding of Springer AISC series, Central Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, June 12-14, 2013. 

8.      Avinash Kumar Singh, Piyush Joshi, G.C.Nandi, “Face Recognition with Liveliness Detection using Eye and Mouth Movement,” in the proceeding of 15th IEEE conference on advanced computing technologies (ICACT-2013). 

9.          Seema Mishra, G C Nandi “Link Mining- A Computer Vision and Pattern Mining Approach ”, 80(6): 41-47, 2013,  published by foundation of computer science, New York.

10.      Neha Baranwal, Ganesh Jaiswal, G.C.Nandi "A speech recognition technique using MFCC with DWT in isolated Hindi words"  in the Proceedings of International  conference on advance computing, networking and informatics (ICACNI 2013)(Springer).

11.      Neha Baranwal, Shweta Tripathi, G.C.Nandi "A Speaker Invariant Speech Recognition Technique Using HFCC Features in Isolated Hindi Words." “International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies”  vol 3.No 4. 2014. Inder Science publisher 

12.      Shweta Tripathi, Neha Baranwal, G.C.Nandi " A MFCC Based Hindi Speech Recognition Technique Using HTK Toolkit" in the Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International conference on Image Information processing (ICIIP 2013)

 13.         Subhash Chandra Pandey, G C Nandi, Artificial endocrine system: a new paradigm of knowledge discovery, International journal of information acquisition, Volume 09, Issue 03n04,pp. 21, World Scientific,2013  DOI: 10.1142/S0219878913500150.

14.         Subhas Chandra Pandey, G C Nandi, Memory Convergence Analysis for Different Iterative Procedures in RNN, Proceedings of the IMECS-2010, March 17-19, 2010, Hong Kong , Peoples Republic of China.

Publications during 2011-2012

Journal Publications

• Blood sugar regularization based evolutionary algorithm for data classification, International Journal Applied Soft Computing 12 (2012) 2266–2273 ,Elsevier. (with S C Pandey)

• A Central Pattern Generator  Based Nonlinear Controller to Simulate the Biped Locomotion of a Stable Human Gait Oscillation. International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol-2 Issue-2, 2011. (with four co-authors)

International Conference Publications

•  S Mondal, A Nandy, P Chakraborty, GC Nandi ,“Gait Based Personal Recognition System using Rotation Sensor” – In the proceeding of International Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences (CIS -2012), pp. 395-402, Vol. 3, No. 3, March 2012.  

• A Nandy, S Mondal, L Rai, P Chakraborty, GC Nandi ,“A Study on Damping Profile for Prosthetic Knee” – In 1st International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2012) Chennai in the proceeding of ACM Digital Library, pp. 511-517

•  A Nandy, S Mondal, P Chakraborty, GC Nandi ,“Development of a Robust Microcontroller Based Intelligent Prosthetic Limb” – In 5th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2012), Noida, In Springer CCIS 306, pp. 445-455, August 2012 .

• S. Shahid, A.Nandy, S.Mondal, P. Chakraborty and G C Nandi, “A Study on Human Gait Analysis” – In 2nd International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT-2012), Coimbatore in the proceeding of ACM Digital Library.

•  Seema Mishra, G.C. Nandi, CVDP: A Tool Based on a Social Network Analysis to Combating Virus Propagation” IEEE, International conference on communication, information and computing technology,18-20, October, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology,  Mumbai 2012.

• Rajesh Doriya, Pavan Chakroborty, G. C Nandi, “Robot-Cloud: A Framework to assist Hetrogeneous Low Cost Robot”, IEEE, International conference on communication, information and computing technology, 18-20, October, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai 2012.

• Shashank Srivastava , Avinash Kumar Singh, G.C. Nandi, “ Inter Cipher Block Diffusion: A Novel Transformation for proposed parallel AES”, in the proceeding of Elsevier 2nd international conference on communication, computing and security to be held at NIT Rourkela from 6-8 October 2012.

• Avinash Kumar Singh, G. C. Nandi, “ Face Recognition Using Facial Symmetry”, in the proceeding of ACM 2nd International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT-2012), to be held at Avinashilingam University Coimbatore from 26-28 October 2012. 

• B.Tech student's projects graduated  so far by me  in the areas of  Mechanical Engg/IT/Robotics & AI and Machine Learning including deep learning 210+ ( as on 2022).

• M.Tech Theses done so far under my supervision  in the area of Robotics & AI and Machine Learning including deep learning 100+ ( as on 2018).

• Ph.D students graduated so far under my supervision -12 ( Pl see the list above for details) and 7  are in progress ( as on 2018).

Earlier Publications

 In referred Journals / Prestigious Institutional Technical reports/Book Chapters/International Conferences:

• "Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks using Directional Antenna", V.K. Chaurasiya · R.L. Lavavanshi · Shekhar Verma · G.C. Nandi · A.K. Srivastava, Advance Computing Conference, 2009. IACC 2009. IEEE International; 04/2009.

• "Development of Adaptive Modular Active Leg (AMAL) Using Bipedal Robotics Technology" In the Int Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier Publisher,Vol 57, issue 6-7,pp 603-616, June 2009.

• "S-H Struct:An Affirmative  Advanced Method for Mining Frequent Patterns" in the Int Journal of Computer Sciences and Communication Technology, Vol.1, No.2, 2009.

• "Mining Temporal Patterns for Humanoid Robot Using Pattern Growth Method", Lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Vol 5908/2009, Book "Rough sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing", pp 352-360.ISBN: 978-3-642-10646-0, December, 2009.

• "Efficacy of Gestures for communication among Humanoid Robots by Fuzzy Inference Method",In the Int. J.Computational Vision and Robotics, Vol.1,No.4, 2010.

•  “Fusion strategies for minimizing sensing-level uncertainty in manipulator control”, International Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer Science, Vol.43,No.1:1-32, 2005.

• "Fusion Approach to Stereo Vision Uncertainty", SPIE proceedings series, Vol.4731,pp.145-153, 2002.

• “Development of a Sensor Fusion Strategy for Robotic Application based on Geometric Optimization”, Published in the Int. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 35:171-191, 2002.

•  “Dynamic Model of a Gyroscopic Wheel”, Technical report, Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, No.CUHK-MAE-TR-97-1,1997.

• “Mechanism of Actuation and Dynamic Balancing of a Single wheel Gyroscopically Stabilised Robot”, Technical report, Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, No. CUHK-MAE-TR-97-2,1997.

•  “Deflection Characteristics of some special configuration of snake type robots”, in the Int. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 12:145-153, 1995.

•  “Finite Element Design of Manipulator Coupled Spacecraft for a research testbed”, in the Int. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 13: 75-91, 1995.

• “Controlling the Equilibrium of Wall Climbing Robots”, in the Journal of Mechanics of Solid bodies No. 4., 58-70, 1992.(in Russian).

•  “Mobile Robotic Complex for Cleaning”, in the Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Robotics , Vol. 4, 21-38, 1991.(in Russian).

• “Design and development of a vacuum pedipulator”, Preprint, Institute for the Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1992.

•  “A Microprocessor based robotic touch sensor”, in the Journal IIST, Vol.7, No.1-4, 1985.

 In International Conference Proceedings ( as on 2010)

• “Vacuum Pedipulator for Climbing Robots”, 23rd Int. Symp. On Industrial Robots (ISIR), October 1992, Barcelona, Spain.

• “Task Oriented Optimum Posture determination for climbing robots”, 5th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Handling, April 26-29, 1993, Tennessee, USA.

• “Wall Climbing Robots for Waste Material Handling”, 9th Int. Conf. on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future, August 18-20, 1993, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

• “Deflection Characteristics of Redundant Robots”, CARS & FOF’93, May 17-19, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1993.

• “Robots for Cleaning and Decontamination of Building Construction”, 8th Int. Symp. On Automation and Robotics in Construction, 3-5 June, 1991, Stuttgart, Germany.

• “Development of a Slip sensor for Robot End-Effectors”, 3rd Int. Conf. on CAPE (Computer Aided Production Engineering), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, June 1-3, 1988.

• “Mercuric Iodide Detector for Mobile Robotic Application in Radioactive Decontamination Process”, 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote handling, February 5-10, 1995, Sandia National Laboratory, California, USA.

• “Development of a slip sensor for robots”, 5th All Union Conf. on Robotics, Gelendrick, USSR, October 1990.

•  “Development of a non contact type of slip sensor for Climbing Robots”, All Union Conf. on Intelligent Control System, UCY, Baku, 18-20, June 1991, USSR.

•  “Navigating Mobile robots in Radioactive Decontamination Mission using Semiconductor Detectors (HgI2 based)”, 26th ISIR, 4-6 October 1995, Singapore Exhibition Center.

•  “Finite Element Design of a Research Test bed for Manipulator Coupled Spacecraft”, 10 th Int. Conf. on CAD/CAM/Robotics and Factories of the Future, August 22-25, 1994, Ontario, CANADA

•  “Analysis of actuation and Dynamic Balancing for a Single Wheel Robot”, 0-7803-4465-0/98 $10.00@IEEE

•  “Dynamic Model of a Gyroscopic Wheel”, 0-7803-x-5/98 $10.00@IEEE.

• “Task Capability Theory for Solving Inverse Sliding Problem of Industrial robots”, Proceedings of the int. Conf on intelligent Flexible Autonomous manufacturing Systems, IFAMS –2000, Tata Mc Graw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd. New Delhi.

• “Development of a sensor integration strategy for robotic application based on Geometric optimization, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4385, April, 2001

• Techniques for Dynamic Damping Control in Prosthetic Knee for Stable Humanoid Gait, IEEE- IROS 2005 Workshop on Morphology, Control and Passive Dynamics, August 2nd , 2005, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

• Indiscernibility criterion based on rough sets in feature selection and detection of land mines, IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, 25-27 July, 2005, Vol.2.

• "Biologically Inspired CPG based above knee active prosthesis, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 22-28, 2008.

• Traffic Based Clusturing in Wireless Sensor Network, IEEE  4th Int conference on WCSN-2008, Dec. 27-29,  IIIT-A,pp.83-88 of conf proceedings. 

• Clustering Method Evaluation for Hidden Markov Model Based Real -Time Gesture Recognition, In the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Advances in recent technologies on Communication and Computing,27-28 October , Kottayam, Kerala, India, 2009.

• Gesture Based Music Generation- IEEE second International Conference on Engineering and Technology-ICETET-2009, pp 209-214,Nagpur, India , 16-18, December-2009.

In National Conferences ( as on 2001)

• “Need for the Development of Sensory devices for Robot Grippers”, National Conference of Mechanical Engineering, MMM Engineering College, Gorakpur, Dec. 1987.

• “Development of a Slip Sensor for Robot End-Effector”, NACOMM’87, Bombay VJTI.

• “Development of an Execution level Controller for Obstacle avoidance and path planning for Climbing robot platform”, NACOMM-95, 20-21st January, 1996, CMERI, Durgapur.

• “Application of Neural Network in Optimizing Process Parameters for sheet metal braze welding”, National Seminar on Weld Failures: Feb 2-3, 1996, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

• “Mobile Robot Navigation for Mine Development”, Proceed. Of National Seminar on Mining Machinery: Present state and future Development, ISM, Dhanbad, Nov. 1999.

• “Gyroscopic Stabilisation and its application in Mobile Communication”, 11 th ISME Conf. 3-5 February, 1999.

•  “Application of information fusion technology for mining & mineral industry” Third Indian conference on Computer Applications in Mineral Industry, ICCAMI-2001, 17-18 March , 2001, New Delhi.

Project work done under my supervision :

• Deep learning based robot grasping and manipulation

• Various Machine learning based Robotics Project

•  Picture Classification using Robotic Vision in the domain of chemistry lab objects.

• Self Navigating Rover – Mobile Robot Navigation in Unknown Environment.

• Carnivore Web Clusterizer – A Softbot approach to Intelligent Information Retrieval from the web.

• Algorithm Design and Implementation for Optimal Path Planning and Navigation for autonomous mobile robot.  Implementation of a Real-Time Algorithm for Obstacle Avoidance.

•  Stereoscopic distance calculation.

• Path Planning with Real Time Obstacle Avoidance.

•  Design and implementation of a classification system based on soft computing and statistical approaches.

• System Administration Utilities – a mobile agents approach

• Use of soft computing techniques for explosive detection.

• Network Intrusion Detection System & Port Scanning.

•  Connectiva – A Cross-platform Remote Desktop Connection

•  Multimodal Human Computer Interaction

•  Facial Image Analysis using Soft Computing Techniques.

Current Research Activities :

• Deep Learning and its application in Robotics

• Reinforment Learning based Robot Grasping

•  Development of AMAL (Adaptive Modular Active Leg)

• Developing technology for gesture based communication.

• Developing new structures for Temporal Data Mining

Important Conferences/Seminars attended/presented papers  till 1997

• All Union Conference on Intelligent Control System, UCY, Baku, June 18-20, 1991, USSR. Presented a paper titled “ Development of a non contact type slip sensor for climbing robots”.

• 8th International Conference on Theoretical Mechanics, May 15-18, 1990, Institute for the Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow attended as delegate only).

• 5th All Union Conference on Robotics, October. 15-17, Gelendrick, USSR. Presented a paper titled “Development of a LASER based slip sensor for climbing robot Pedipulator”.

• Third world congress in Computational Mechanics, June 1990, Stuttgart University, Germany

• 8th Int. Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, June 3-5, 1991, Stuttgart, Germany, Presented a paper titled “ Robots for cleaning and decontamination of building construction”.

• 22nd Int. Symposium on Industrial Robots (ISIR), October 1992, Barcelona, Spain. Presented a paper titled “ Vacuum Pedipulator for Climbing Robots”.

• 9th Int. Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the future, August 18-20, 1993, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Presented a paper titled “Wall Climbing Robots for waste material Handling”.

• 5th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Handling, April 26-29, 1993, Tennessee, USA, Presented a paper titled “ Task Oriented Optimum Posture Determination for Climbing Robot”.

• 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Handling, February 5-8,1995, Sandia National Laboratory. California, USA. Presented a paper titled “ Mercuric Iodide Detector for Mobile Robotic Application in Radio active decontamination Process”.

• 10th Int. Conf. On CAD/CAM/Robotics and Factories of the Future, August 22-25, 1994, Ontario, CANADA, Presented a paper titled “Finite Element Design of a Research Test bed for Manipulator Coupled Space craft”